Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Except the Albatross. Her extruded aluminum foils lifted the hull several feet above the waves, her speed crept up to 32 m.p.h., and she went winging across the surface of Long Island Sound like the hydrodynamic sea bird she is. Then-shades of the Ancient Mariner!-the debut was dampened by another hard-luck story. Off Hewlett Point lay a disabled cabin cruiser with smoke pouring from its engine compartment. t was the Bobbilee II, owned by Investment Banker Robert Lehman, and aboard as Lehman's guests were Movie Mogul Samuel Goldwyn and his wife...
...suspicious "bump" on the bottom known as Contact Delta. Judged by its size and shape, Delta may well be Thresher's hull, crushed and mangled by water pressure. But getting a good look so that scientists on the surface can make sure has proved to be an elusive problem...
...reverse at high speed and conks them out), the film takes on a measure of verve and dash. Best scene is the nighttime patrol when, running without lights, Kennedy's PT suddenly comes under the prow of a blacked-out Japanese destroyer and PT 109's plywood hull is sliced through like an orange crate. There is a moment of silence, then a crackling as the sea becomes molten with flaming fuel, and in the night come the terrified cries of men calling out to their buddies...
Mike Belknap and Ed Robinson won an intercollegiate (12-game) set from Smoyer and Mays, 14-12, in the number two doubles match, and Walker and John Vinton outplayed Miller and Hull, 6-2, 6-4, at number three...
...accepted as "a peacetime avenue of action which, when used, will not upset international apple carts." In Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 state visit to Britain aboard a Soviet heavy cruiser, British Frogman Lionel Crabb mysteriously died in Portsmouth harbor while trying to examine the cruiser's hull. Yet the state visit continued and official relations remained unruffled because London followed the code by calmly disowning the dead frogman. The rule here, says Author Felix, is that "a covert operation's patent hostility can be ignored by the victim who uncovers it only if he receives the cooperation...